Directors & Designers (eBook)

lt;p>Christine White is head of narrative and interactive arts in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University.

PART I: SETTING THE SCENE 

Chapter 1: Back and Forth to Russia: Scenography as an Academic Study from Moscow 1994–St Petersburg 2004 – Christine White

PART II: PERFORMING PARTNERS

Chapter 2: Hand in Glove: The Designer as Director as Designer – Charles Erven

Chapter 3: Political Performing Partners: Director Lee Strasberg, Scene Designer Mordecai Gorelik, Playwright John Howard Lawson and the Group Theatre – Anne Fletcher

Chapter 4: The Director, the Designer and the Ghost/Creative Team in Site-Specific Performance Practice – Kathleen Irwin

Chapter 5: Director Petr Lébl and Designer William Nowák: To a Man – Vera Velemanová

Chapter 6: The Organics of the Rehearsal Room: Contemporary Directing Practice and the Director–Designer Relationship – Alison Oddey

Chapter 7: Collaborative Models: Mielziner, Williams and Kazan – Julia Listengarten

Chapter 8: Problematics of Theatrical Negotiations: Directing, Scenography and State Ideology – Julia Listengarten

Chapter 9: Methodological Practices for Directing and Designing – Christine White

Chapter 10: The Digital Platform as a Communication Tool – Adele Keeley

PART III: METAPHORS, METATHEATRE & METHODOLOGIES

Chapter 11: The Seductive Scene or Reclaiming Spectacle – Christine White

Chapter 12: Metatheatre: A Discourse on Contemporary Staging – Ewa Waçhocka

Chapter 13: A Metaphorical Mise-en-Scène: Elia Kazan and Max Gorelik at The Group Theatre – Scott Dahl

Chapter 14: Ideational Conflict and Resolution in the Design Process: Positive Outcomes from Negative Relationships – Harry Feiner

Chapter 15: Design as Action: Jean Cocteau and the Ballets Russes – Gregory Sporton

PART IV: POSTSCRIPT TO THE DIRECTOR

Chapter 16: From Hamlet with Love: A Letter to the Other – Lilja Blumenfeld